"When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left."
Matthew 25:31-33
The difference between sheep and goats in this parable is the way that they treated each other, for as Christ says later in the parable, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (verse 40), and tellingly, "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me" (verse 45). The idea is taking care of the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked (presumably because of poverty), the sick, and the incarcerated. All too often these are exactly the people that we dismiss, even when it is people close to us, because we are uncomfortable when things get messy.
God doesn't expect us to become sheep superheroes overnight, but today, maybe we can shed some of our goat tendencies, and take more time to consider the people in the world around us. Let's work on finding ways to help, because we help God when we are helping his children. As we find ways to reach out to others to assist, we'll look less and less like goats, and hopefully find our way into God's sheepfold on that great day referenced above.
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